Having taken arts projects to pupil referral units myself, I felt that these snapshot accounts were too soft and anecdotal. I was not at all sure how effective they would be in persuading much-pressured teachers to rise to the challenge. "Very nice," the teachers might say, " but they obviously have not got my class." One project account here refers to kids keeping small sketchbooks in their satchels. Fine, but would they keep them in their hoodies?
I also noted that, in his introduction, author Richard Ings says that "only full-scale tracking and longitudinal research will uncover just how lasting an impact such projects might have on young people and the adult facilitators involved".
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